Unease!
Their earlier delight was swept away.
In its place, only profound unease remained.
The sages exchanged glances, each seeing the gravity in the others' eyes.
"What... exactly is he trying to do?!"
Jieyin spoke, only to find his voice unbearably dry.
There was no other reason!
At that moment, an explosive suspicion had already taken shape in his mind.
Beside him, Zhunti spoke his mind without hesitation.
"Could it be... he wants to recreate the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe?!"
Exactly!
In fact, all Four Saints had already thought of this.
After all, it was only when the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe shattered long ago that it became the three Heaven-Opening Supreme Treasures: the Taiji Diagram, the Pangu Banner, and the Chaos Bell.
Now, it seemed that Gu Changqing had clearly collected the three Heaven-Opening Supreme Treasures on purpose.
Naturally, they could all make the connection to the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe in its original, complete state.
At those words, the sages' hearts sank even further.
Not only the Xuanmen Saints, who had fought Gu Changqing countless times, but even the newly joined Elder of Chaos felt his pupils constrict and a crushing weight settle over him.
The Heaven-Opening Divine Axe!
Those few words held a tremendous divine might that towered over all eternity.
More importantly, the Elder of Chaos had personally experienced the peerless terror of the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe long ago.
Beneath a single stroke of that axe, even someone as formidable as him had nearly perished, his Dao extinguished.
Thus, deep down, the Elder of Chaos truly did not wish to see that chaos supreme treasure reappear.
Fortunately, just as the sages grew increasingly uneasy-
Hongjun finally spoke.
"Impossible!"
"The Heaven-Opening Divine Axe has already shattered. How could its three fragments possibly become one again?!"
"Hmph, even if Gu Changqing